Business Intelligence Analyst

Fieldin

Remote

2020 - Current

• Developed Shiny apps to summarize data, explore data through interactive maps, and create PowerPoint presentations.
• Predicted machine unloading events with 90% accuracy.
• Designed flexible visualizations and tables of customer KPIs.
• Built a framework for estimating customer costs.
• Improved standardization, reproducibility, and audibility of all information by carefully defining metric conversions & formatting.
• Used Docker and ShinyProxy to publish applications and reports.
• Managed database tables using R and SQL.

Jr. Data Scientist

Grimmway

Bakersfield, CA

2018 - 2020

• Trained ML models in R to forecast important business metrics including sales and yield; forecasts improved predictive accuracy by 30-50% over previous methods.
• Implemented linear programming problems in R to optimize planting and harvesting activities.
• Performed complex data cleaning and exploration on large datasets.
• Analyzed field trial data in R using appropriate statistical methods.
• Developed {tidyroll}, an R package for performing cross-validation of time-series data with irregular time slices; and {coagmetr}, an R package used to interface with the CoAgMET weather network API.
• Created Shiny apps to visualize forecasts, implement constrained optimization problems, and generate automated reports.
• Built object detection pipeline to automatically generate carrot stand count estimates.
• Performed sample size calculations and provided spatial sampling recommendations.
• Communicated analytical methods and results to the executive team.

Data Analyst Intern

Small Business Development Center

Camarillo, CA

2015 - 2016

• Analyzed small business metrics, such as revenue per employee, to predict which clients have the highest risk of bankruptcy.
• Used model predictions to efficiently allocate limited consulting resources to assist at-risk businesses.
• Trained executive team in statistical methods.

Research Assistant

California State Univeristy, Channel Islands

Camarillo, CA

2014

• Collected and cleaned data from various online sources using Stata programming.
• Created visualizations in Stata and wrote literature reviews of scientific articles related to Chinese & Indian stock, currency, and debt markets.

National Taiwan University

M.S. in Agricultural Economics (4.0 GPA)

Taipei, Taiwan

2018

California State University, Channel Islands

B.A. in Economics (3.8 GPA)

Camarillo, CA

2016

Do Concealed Firearms Decrease Crime? An Analysis Using Active Concealed Firearm License Data in the United States

Used a unique dataset on county-level concealed firearms permits and applied two-stage least squares estimation to show that concealed firearms do not decrease crime.

N/A

2018

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.6342/NTU201800993

Do HEVs Cause More Cyclist & Pedestrian Injuries?

Used logit model & large UK accident-level dataset to show that quieter electric vehicles significantly increase pedestrian accidents net of other covariates including speed limit and urbanization. Also used Bayesian methods (MCMC) to estimate the posterior distribution and check for non-normality in estimates.

N/A

2018

Effect of Hurricane Morakot on Agricultural Prices in Taiwan

Used a difference-in-differences (DiD) event study model and a large transaction-level dataset to quantify the casual effect of Hurricane Morakot on vegetable prices in Taiwan, adding weight to the literature that claims weather is oftentimes the most important driver of local agricultural prices.

N/A

2018

Thesis Competition First Place Prize

Master’s thesis presentation competition first place winner.

N/A

2018

Taiwan Ministry of Education Scholarship

Merit scholarship for post-graduate studies in Taiwan.

N/A

2016

Program Honors in Ecnomomics

Selected by CSUCI Economics Department faculty for outstanding achievement.

N/A

2016

Wang Family Scholarship

Merit scholarship for international study in Taiwan & Mainland China.

N/A

2014

President’s Scholarship

Highest scholastic achievement award in CSU system; only handful awarded annually.

N/A

2012